On this page you will find information relating to searching for information on the internet. This will house a collection of techniques, destinations, tips, and tools for getting yourself and your students connected to the internet and the world.
It's a technique that all internet researchers need to understand in order to more efficiently search the web. The basics are easy to understand and make logical sense. The document includes visuals to help with understanding how it works.
Sweet Search: A search engine that is moderated by research professionals, librarians, and teachers.
It's a pretty excellent tool for academic specific searching, that is safe as well. An added bonus is that it forces students to break free of wikipedia, answers.com, and about.com.
WWW.SWEETSEARCH.COM
WWW.KHANACADEMY.COM
Khan Academy is an online collection of videos, lessons, and even has teaching and academic coaching capabilities. This video will walk you through the major functions of this website. It is primarily centered on math and science, but has branched out to computer science and the humanities as well. A very good website. All of the videos are through Youtube.com, so embedding these videos onto your LMS is very easy. On Youtube.com, you just click the "Share" button below the video and copy the Embed code, pasting it in the appropriate area, just like you did with LearnZillion and Educreations.
This website is a collection of Web Quests. Web Quests are web based exploration activities that will require students to produce a certain product that will exhibit learning. It is a great way to get students to learn about a topic and practice their research, reading, writing, and production skills.
There are pre-made projects and you can create your own as well. The "help" page has instructions on nearly any issue you could run into, that is why I did not make a walk-through.
50 Free Presentation Tools This wiki has a list of over 50 free to use online tools. Find what you want to use and get it in the hands of your students.
A wiki on technology resources for every subject.
Electronic Pen Pal website. Also has projects that students can engage in with classrooms from around the world. AMAZING website. WWW.EPALS.COM
On this page you will find information relating to searching for information on the internet. This will house a collection of techniques, destinations, tips, and tools for getting yourself and your students connected to the internet and the world.
It's a technique that all internet researchers need to understand in order to more efficiently search the web. The basics are easy to understand and make logical sense. The document includes visuals to help with understanding how it works.
Sweet Search: A search engine that is moderated by research professionals, librarians, and teachers.
It's a pretty excellent tool for academic specific searching, that is safe as well. An added bonus is that it forces students to break free of wikipedia, answers.com, and about.com.
WWW.SWEETSEARCH.COM
WWW.KHANACADEMY.COM
Khan Academy is an online collection of videos, lessons, and even has teaching and academic coaching capabilities. This video will walk you through the major functions of this website. It is primarily centered on math and science, but has branched out to computer science and the humanities as well. A very good website. All of the videos are through Youtube.com, so embedding these videos onto your LMS is very easy. On Youtube.com, you just click the "Share" button below the video and copy the Embed code, pasting it in the appropriate area, just like you did with LearnZillion and Educreations.A video on how to utilize ck-12.
This website is a collection of Web Quests. Web Quests are web based exploration activities that will require students to produce a certain product that will exhibit learning. It is a great way to get students to learn about a topic and practice their research, reading, writing, and production skills.
There are pre-made projects and you can create your own as well. The "help" page has instructions on nearly any issue you could run into, that is why I did not make a walk-through.
50 Free Presentation Tools This wiki has a list of over 50 free to use online tools. Find what you want to use and get it in the hands of your students.
Electronic Pen Pal website. Also has projects that students can engage in with classrooms from around the world. AMAZING website. WWW.EPALS.COM